" Open Data Communities offers Linked Data access to the Index of Multiple Deprivation datasets from the Department of Communities and Local Government. "
When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.
Crowd Science provides audience measurement, segmentation and monetization opportunities for the world's largest premium publishers, advertising networks, and brands.
a rigorously researched, beautifully designed, thoughtfully curated anthology of the world’s most compelling work at the intersection of these two relatively nascent yet increasingly powerful techno-cultural phenomena, network science and information visualization.
" a rigorously researched, beautifully designed, thoughtfully curated anthology of the world's most compelling work at the intersection of these two relatively nascent yet increasingly powerful techno-cultural phenomena, network science and information visualization."
His story "The Machine That Would Predict the Future" explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.
The basic idea is that the properties of knowledge that we've taken for granted at least in the West for, oh, 2,500 years are not actually properties of knowledge. They're properties of knowledge when its medium is paper.
"In the December issue of Scientific American, author David Weinberger reports from the frontiers of knowledge. His story "The Machine That Would Predict the Future" explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world. "